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Waiting for God (TV series)

Index Waiting for God (TV series)

Waiting for God is a British sitcom that ran on BBC1 from 1990 to 1994 starring Graham Crowden as Tom and Stephanie Cole as Diana, two spirited residents of a retirement home who spend their time running rings around the home's oppressive management and their own families. [1]

47 relations: Accounting, Ageing, Alcoholism, Anglicanism, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, BBC One, BBC Worldwide, Boscombe, Bournemouth, Brighton, Britain's Best Sitcom, British sitcom, Christopher Bowen, Daniel Hill (actor), David Benson, Decade, Dementia, Drama (UK TV channel), Farmoor, Franz Schubert, Gold (UK TV channel), Graham Crowden, Grand Theatre, Blackpool, Humour, Janine Duvitski, Jeffrey Holland, Joe Moore (television journalist), Letchworth, Michael Aitkens, Michael Bilton, Nash Ensemble, Nichola McAuliffe, Oxfordshire, Patty Duke, PBS, Photojournalism, Retirement home, Roy Hudd, Sandra Payne, Stephanie Cole, Tim Preece, Trout Quintet, Vilma Hollingbery, Warner Home Video, Wayback Machine, Worthing, 2 Entertain.

Accounting

Accounting or accountancy is the measurement, processing, and communication of financial information about economic entities such as businesses and corporations.

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Ageing

Ageing or aging (see spelling differences) is the process of becoming older.

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Alcoholism

Alcoholism, also known as alcohol use disorder (AUD), is a broad term for any drinking of alcohol that results in mental or physical health problems.

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Anglicanism

Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that evolved out of the practices, liturgy and identity of the Church of England following the Protestant Reformation.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) founded in 1929 is Australia's national broadcaster, funded by the Australian Federal Government but specifically independent of Government and politics in the Commonwealth.

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BBC One

BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.

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BBC Worldwide

BBC Worldwide Ltd. was the wholly owned commercial subsidiary of the BBC, formed out of a restructuring of its predecessor BBC Enterprises in 1995.

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Boscombe

Boscombe is a suburb of Bournemouth, England.

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Bournemouth

Bournemouth is a large coastal resort town on the south coast of England to the east of the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site, long.

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Brighton

Brighton is a seaside resort on the south coast of England which is part of the city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, 47 miles (75 km) south of London.

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Britain's Best Sitcom

Britain's Best Sitcom was a BBC media campaign in which television viewers were asked to decide the best British situation comedy.

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British sitcom

A British sitcom or a Britcom is a situation comedy programme produced for British television.

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Christopher Bowen

Christopher Bowen (born 20 October 1959) is a British actor.

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Daniel Hill (actor)

Daniel J. Hill (born 6 February 1956) is an English actor known for his extensive work in television, theatre and film.

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David Benson

David Benson (born David Hodgson on 11 January 1962) is an English character actor, writer and comedian, most famous for his one-man show titled Think No Evil of Us: My Life with Kenneth Williams about the life and career of the late actor, for which he won the Scotsman's Fringe First award in 1996, and for his television role as Noël Coward in the BBC comedy series Goodnight Sweetheart.

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Decade

A decade is a period of 10 years.

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Dementia

Dementia is a broad category of brain diseases that cause a long-term and often gradual decrease in the ability to think and remember that is great enough to affect a person's daily functioning.

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Drama (UK TV channel)

Drama is a British digital television channel broadcasting drama (and, to a lesser extent, comedy) programming in the United Kingdom and Ireland as part of the UKTV network of channels.

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Farmoor

Farmoor is a village west of the centre of Oxford, England.

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Franz Schubert

Franz Peter Schubert (31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras.

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Gold (UK TV channel)

Gold (stylised as GOLD) is a British classic comedy channel from the UKTV network, broadcasting to the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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Graham Crowden

Clement Graham Crowden (30 November 1922 – 19 October 2010) was a Scottish actor.

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Grand Theatre, Blackpool

Blackpool Grand Theatre is a theatre in Blackpool, Lancashire, England.

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Humour

Humour (British English) or humor (American English; see spelling differences) is the tendency of experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement.

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Janine Duvitski

Janine Duvitski (born Christine Janine Drzewicki; 28 June 1952) is an English actress, known for her roles as Jane Edwards in Waiting for God, Pippa Trench in One Foot in the Grave and Jacqueline Stewart in Benidorm.

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Jeffrey Holland

Jeffrey Holland (born Jeffrey Michael Parkes, 17 July 1946) is an English actor well known for roles in television sitcoms, playing camp comic at the Maplin's holiday camp in Hi-de-Hi!, as well as BBC Radio comedy, including Week Ending.

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Joe Moore (television journalist)

Joe Moore is an American television personality.

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Letchworth

Letchworth Garden City, commonly known as Letchworth, is a town in Hertfordshire, England, with a population of 33,600.

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Michael Aitkens

Michael Aitkens (born 1947) is a British actor and writer of drama scripts for movies, television and stage.

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Michael Bilton

Michael Bilton (14 December 1919 – 5 November 1993) was an English actor best known for his roles in the British television sitcoms To the Manor Born (playing the gardener and sometime butler Ned) and Waiting for God (playing Basil, a septuagenarian satyr).

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Nash Ensemble

The Nash Ensemble of London is an acclaimed English chamber ensemble.

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Nichola McAuliffe

Nichola McAuliffe (born 27 August 1955) is an English television and stage actress and writer, best known for her role as Sheila Sabatini in the ITV sitcom Surgical Spirit (1989–1995).

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Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon, from Oxonium, the Latin name for Oxford) is a county in South East England.

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Patty Duke

Anna Marie "Patty" Duke (December 14, 1946 – March 29, 2016) was an American actress, appearing on stage, film, and television.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.

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Photojournalism

Photojournalism is a particular form of journalism (the collecting, editing, and presenting of news material for publication or broadcast) that employs images in order to tell a news story.

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Retirement home

A retirement home – sometimes called an old people's home or old age home, although this term can also refer to a nursing home – is a multi-residence housing facility intended for the elderly.

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Roy Hudd

Roy Hudd, OBE (born 16 May 1936) is an English comedian, actor, radio host, author and authority on the history of music hall entertainment.

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Sandra Payne

Sandra Payne (born 24 September 1944, Royston, Hertfordshire) is an English actress best known for her roles as Christine Harris in the British television series Triangle and as Marion Ballard in Waiting for God.

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Stephanie Cole

Patricia Stephanie Cole, OBE (born 5 October 1941) is an English stage, television, radio and film actress, known for high-profile television roles in shows such as Tenko (1981–85), Open All Hours (1982–85), A Bit of a Do (1989), Waiting for God (1990–94), Keeping Mum (1997–98), Doc Martin (2004–09), Still Open All Hours (2013–present) Man Down (2014-present) and as Sylvia Goodwin in ITV soap opera Coronation Street (2011–13).

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Tim Preece

Tim Preece (born 5 August 1938) is an English actor, prominent in 1970s television.

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Trout Quintet

The Trout Quintet (Forellenquintett) is the popular name for the Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667, by Franz Schubert.

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Vilma Hollingbery

Vilma Hollingbery (born 21 July 1932) is a British actress.

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Warner Home Video

Warner Home Video is the home video distribution arm of Warner Bros. Founded in 1978 as WCI Home Video (standing for Warner Communications, Inc.), the company primarily releases titles from the film and television library of Warner Bros.

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Wayback Machine

The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web and other information on the Internet.

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Worthing

Worthing is a large seaside town in England, with borough status in West Sussex.

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2 Entertain

2 Entertain (stylised as 2 | entertain) is a British video and music publisher formed by the merger of BBC Video and Video Collection International in 2005.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_God_(TV_series)

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